News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE.
THINGS STRANGE, STARTLING
CURIOUS,
Found in the Columns of the Papers
that Reach Us.

banv this spring the light emitted has
been remarkable, and a correspondent
writes: Pedestrians have caught this lu-
minous substance on their feet, and
their path would be marked for a short
distance by the light.
FRANKLIN HINKLEY, of Fall Noun
tain, is a good subject for the hair re-
storers. He was i'll for some time with
disease of the spine, and the hair of his
head, beard, moustache, eyebrows and
eyelashes all came out, but there is no
prospect of its return. He would make
a good photograph to be labeled "Be-
fore Using"
Here is a scientific nut which Min
nesotian ruthlessly hurls in the teeth of
natural phenomena delineators: "Why
is it that along railroads and the high
ways the snow always drifts from the
high places into the depressions, while
in lumber yards it drifts from the de-
pressions and accumulates up on top of
lumber piles?"
POSTMASTER L. DAVIS of the town of
Solar, jackson county, ILL.,, receives the
moderate salary of 10 cents year. The
Postmaster of Peck, ILL.,, got 30 cents
last year, while the Postmaster of Lear,
Ark, got 81 cents. 1t is said that there
are more than 10000 Postmasters who
receive no more than $40 year, and
10000 who receive about So year.
MIS-. William Bailey of Ripley, Pa,
went the other morning to milk her COW,
very valuable thoroughbred, and was
gone so long that her husband went to
see what was the matter. He found
the COW standing over the dead body of
his wife, whom she had gOred to death,
and when he undertook to remove the
body the mad animal attacked him, and
but for the arrival of neighbors would
have killed him also.
A SPRINGFIELD, Mass, man has dis
covered what has long been pretty well
| nown-that the real mission of the
mosquito is to purify. He had two hogs
| heads filed with water, and into one he
| put a lot of wrigglers or embryo mos
| quitoes. The water free from wrigglers
soon became foul, but that containing
| them remained sweet. So he concludes
that mosquitoes keep our swamps from
becoming foul and pestilent.
Tom MARSHALL, when in Congress,
illustrated point in political economy,
and unconsciously delivered an agricul-
tUral suggestion, when he exclaimed in
a speech: 'fMr. Speaker, if were your
neighbor and you were my neighbor,
and we were farmers, and | raised pOta-
toes and nothing but potatoes, and you
raised potatoes and nothing but pota-
toes, then, sir, would have nothing to
give you for your potatoes butpotatoes.
THREE very well dressed young men
of st. Louis tried to get up a Irritation
with two pretty girls in public hall,
and finally one of the men spoke to one
of the girls and asked her to talk to him
and smile for five minutes in order that
he might win a five-dollar bet that he
could hold a conversation with her. She
Immediately had the young man and his
two companions arrested, and after a
night in the lookup one was fined IS, one
$50 and one $50.
CALLS DENNARD, cOiored, was arrest
ed in Georgia and taken before a magis-
trate for trial on the charge of burglary,
preferred by John Belvin, a comrade.
Belvin was excused from court to hunt
up some witnesses, by whom he propos-'
ed to prove the crime. For two hours
the court awaited his return, only tO
Demands wife. The arrest of Dennard
was a scheme to keep him out of the
way until the elopement could be effect
/ ed.
FARMER HARTMAN EMMoNs of Still
water, n. Y, missed buckwheat from
his granary. On Wednesday night he
set a bear trap in the bin, and about
midnight was awakened by vigorous
bowling in the granary. The bowling
was done by one of his neighbOrs, whose
two hands were fast in the steel jaws of
the trap. Farmer EmmOns improved the
situation and augmented the commO-
ton with bakers dozen of stripes, well
laid on with an OK CAD. Then, after a
short lecture on the sin of stealing, he
released the prisoner.
PETER FORBES of East Missouri, Cana
da, at 9 o'clock one recent morning,
crawled into hole III straw stack to
look after family of little pigs that had
been there but Il short time. While he
was investigating the mother came
home, and she was angry when she saw
the invader. She wouldn't let Mr..
Forbes back out, and he didn't think it
wise to turn around. So there was moth
ing to do but dig, and dig he did, and
about o'clock in the afternoon he
emerged from the tunnel that he had ex-
cavated, very hungry and disguised
man.
DEPUTY SHERIFF TRUMBo of Balti-
more mourns the death of his goat,
which he priced for his almost human
intelligence. He (the goat) would steal
peanuts from the stands of the city even
more successfully than the small boy,
and when his appetite for peanuts was
satisfied he strolled through the ward,
picking up any unconsidered trife that
fell in his way. On one occasion he
brought home door mat; on another
good bed spread; on still another he
walked into house of mourning, pulled
the covering off the corpse and made off
with it. 1t is thought the goat was poi
soned.
The meanest man lives in Michigan.
At the beginning of last month he
made wager with his wife that she
couldn't drink quart of milk day for
so days in February. If she did he was
to give her new silk dress; if she fail
ed she was to buy him a new suit of
clothes. The 2uileless and unsuspect-
ing woman finished her sixteenth quart
of milk latter heroic struggle with her
rebellious stomach) before she discover
ed that February had but % days. The
hoITid husband, who says, 81 knew it
all the time, " is claiming the wages of
his sin, but we suspect that the tenn
perature will be very low when he gets
It.
THE Boston Budget tells of a case of
quick love making fifty years ago well
worthy of this rapid age. A handsome
young clergyman was in a BARRIERS chair
when he saw a young woman pass the
window. He had never seen her before, !
but he said to the barber, 'Please hurry |
up, / wish to speak to that young lady"
Then he seized his white cravat, and
throwing it about his neck, sprang from |
the chair, and grabbing his hat, rushed |
out of the door. The young lady had
halted a moment to look at a window
when she was accosted by the Young
minister. His prepossessing appearance
evidently interested her, although both
parties were total strangers, and they
walked slowly down along the street
conversing like old acquaintance. He
received permission to call on her. and
i'll less than month they were married
and it proved happy marriage.
Recalls the NewhaIl House Horror.
The Buffalo fire recalls the te,,ibIo
loss of life at the Newhau House. in
milwaukee,, Wis, four years ago, and
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